Bug#549137: isdnutils: Pending removal of automake{1.4,1.7}, please update for automake1.9 or higher
Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Barry deFreese (bdefreese@debian.org):
>
>> I was going to try to start from the newer upstream and see if I
>> could fix the build system to just use automake 1.1x but it has
>> sever reverse depends and I don't know the effect it might have on
>> those. Do you have any thoughts on that? I'm happy to try to help
>> with the autotools stuff.
>
> No, I don't have any thoughts..:)
>
> I went on this package because its templates were changed by the former
> maintainer (Paul Slootman) when he uploaded the last version....
>
> Paul actually apparently tried to fix every pending bug report in the
> package before orphaning it (obvisouly because he ack'ed that, not
> using it anymore he could not maintain it properly).
>
> So, my involvment there is just to bring back the debconf l10n to a
> good shape and do a review of the rewritten debconf templates. And I
> know nothing about the package.
>
> Stil, maybe Paul could give a small help in this. That might include
> some hints about the need for the package nowadays. I can roughly
> guess that ISDN stuff is much less widely used now...but that's only a
> rought guess and I may be very wrong (some places, such as Germany,
> had|have a quite wide development of ISDN so there may be people who
> ar still using what's provided in the package.
>
>
Hi folks,
Just wanted to let you know I am back working on this. I have a package
that builds with the "newer" upstream. Right now I am moving all of the
existing patches to quilt, then I am going to re-write the packaging
using more debhelper stuff. I'll try to keep you updated.
Thanks,
Barry deFreese
Debian QA
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